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Lasia cuprea Rondani 1863

Description

Lasia cuprea Rondani, 1863

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 75.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Chiliae [Chile]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (MZUN: Box with no identification label): Lasia cuprea Rond., Chili [= Chile] / M. Zool. N° 11082.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, senior synonym of Panops nigripes Philippi, 1865 (new synonymy, this work). See Remarks.

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 75) described Lasia cuprea, without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from R.A. Philippi under the name “ ocelligera ” and characterized by black legs (“ Pedes nigricantes ”). Philippi (1865: 648) described Panops nigripes from a single specimen collected in Chile, similar to Panops ocelliger Wiedemann, 1830, but with black femora. Edwards (1930: 195) and Stuardo (1946: 102) incorrectly considered Lasia cuprea Rondani, 1863 as a possible synonym of Lasia nigripes Philippi, 1865 (applying the Principle of Priority Lasia nigripes should be the junior synonym of Lasia cuprea). González et al. (2018: 433) considered Lasia cuprea and Lasia nigripes as valid species. No specimen under the name Panops nigripes is present in the MNHNS (M.E. Elgueta Donoso, pers. comm., 2018) where Philippi’s collection is preserved. We found one syntype of Lasia cuprea in the MZUN. In our opinion Rondani and Philippi described two different nominal species based on the same specimen, thus Panops nigripes Philippi, 1865 must be considered as a junior synonym of Lasia cuprea Rondani, 1863, new synonymy.

Notes

Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZUN
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Acroceridae
Genus
Lasia
Species
cuprea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Lasia cuprea Rondani, 1863 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Rondani, C. (1863) Diptera exotica revisa et annotata novis nonnullis descriptis. Eredi Soliani, Modena, 99 pp., 1 pl. [This is the separate that came out before the journal version with a different title, here as Rondani (1864 a)].
  • Philippi, R. A. (1865) Aufzahlung der chilenischen Diptera. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich - Koniglichen Zoologisch - Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 15, 595 - 782.
  • Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1830) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten. Zweiter Theil. Schulz, Hamm, xii + 684 pp. + 5 pls.
  • Edwards, F. W. (1930) Bombyliidae, Nemestrinidae and Cyrtidae. In: Diptera of Patagonia and south Chile based mainly on material in the British Museum (Natural History). Part V Fasc. 2. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 162 - 197.
  • Stuardo, C. (1946) Catalogo de los dipteros de Chile. Ministerio de Agricultura, Impresiones Universitaria, Santiago, 250 pp.
  • Gonzalez, C. R., Elgueta, M. & Ramirez, F. (2018) A catalog of Acroceridae (Diptera) from Chile. Zootaxa, 4374, 427 - 440. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4374.3.6